Sindicalismo da agricultura familiar e agroecologia no Alto Uruguai do RS

Environmental concerns have influenced the political projects of family farmers’ organizations. The present paper aims to examine how these concerns were assimilated by the Federa o dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura Familiar da regi o Sul (FETRAF-Sul) in the Alto Uruguai in Rio Grande do Sul, mainly in setting the agenda of agroecology. A review about the process of building this agenda in the trade unionism was based on the consultation of documents produced by trade unions and their press offices, newspapers and interviews with farmers’ leaders. We decided to do a study about the town of Constantina-RS, where experiments have been carried out since the 1980s to assess how environmental issues have been internalized by unions in different periods.